Top-tier pay is stoking popular discontent Kevork Djansezian/Getty
Among the issues fuelling political upheaval at the moment is the gap between bosses’ and workers’ pay. Leaders, including the UK’s prime minister Theresa May, are busy .
The past five years have seen a groundswell of concern in many parts of the world over the divide between rich and poor. They include the Spanish Indignados movement and Occupy Wall Street in 2011, a 2013 Swiss referendum to cap CEO pay at 12 times that of the lowest paid workers (), and ongoing protests in various…



